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Magic Lantern?

Started 5 months ago | Discussions thread
Dunlin Senior Member • Posts: 2,611
My ML experience

cheddarman wrote:

I keep seeing mentions about Magic Lantern, the best thing since sliced bread for Canon DSLRs.

Apparently it installs things like an Intervalometer into the camera? Very useful although I do have a Pixel😊

Does anybody use it, got any experience of it?

Forget all this, just found that although it's available for the Canon 650D, it states for Firmware 1.0.4 only. I';ve recently updated to 1.0.5!!!

Magic Lantern is third-party firmware that you can install onto your DSLR, and it's does not replace the cameras original firmware.

I used ML on my 1200D happily. Then, with my next cam, a 600D, I had trouble with it and had a quick moment of panic when the camera wouldn't turn on. As you can imagine that put me off.

Anyways, the camera was not damaged and in the end I sold it and got myself a 7D instead. I want to install ML, mainly for the intervalometer (for timelapses). It would save me £20 or so.

But the problem is, I would have to downgrade the cameras official firmware first (2.0.6, ML only supports 2.0.3), and my last experience put me off.

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Bottom line - ML is really good, but it's not guaranteed to be safe, although it usually works fine if you follow the instructions precisely.

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